The document entry decision has been announced only three days before its obligation for all closed places.
Le Monde with AFP
Several events took place on Sunday, November 7 across Morocco to protest against the Anti-Covid vaccinal pass put in place by the government, according to AFP and local media.
A Rabat, the police squared the place where an unauthorized gathering was to be held in the city center, a hundred protesters having been dispersed in the surrounding alleys. Twenty people were arrested, found a reporter from AFP.
If the vaccination opponents were fewer in the capital last week, they gathered in greater numbers in Tangier (North), according to videos broadcast by the local media analkhabar. “Down with the vaccinal pass”, chanted several hundred protesters in the port city.
In Casablanca, the economic megacity of the Kingdom, the protesters were scattered by the police who also proceeded in arrests, according to the information site Hespress. However, it has not been possible to quantify the total number of protesters, nor that of the arrests.
More than 22 million Moroccans vaccinated
On October 21st, Morocco launched an anti-Covid vaccination pass, the first in a Maghreb country. All closed places, including hotels, restaurants, cafes, shops, gyms and hammams are now subject to the pass obligation.
The pass is also required to access public, semi-public and private governments, just like leaving the kingdom or to move between prefectures and provinces.
If a large majority of the population approves vaccination, the compulsory nature of the pass to access public spaces has raised protests, particularly on social networks. An online petition has collected tens of thousands of signatures, distinguishing the “arbitrary” installation of the sanitary pass.
Morocco, where the curve of contamination and death has decreases regularly for ten weeks, wants to immunize 80% of the population, or 30 million people. To date, more than 22.2 million Moroccans received a second dose of the Anti-Covid vaccine.